Luis Ramiro
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 2081697 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Luis Ramiro |
| PRENOMES | Luis |
| SOBRENOME | Ramiro |
| ASSINATURA | RAMIRO L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1523-2475 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 463 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Threat perception and partisan animosity
This study examines antagonism between opposing political camps in Argentina and Brazil, two Latin American countries that have experienced heightened polarization and growing support for contentious right-wing populist leaders. Using original survey data, we analyze how specific perceived threats relate to social distance toward supporters of rival presidential candidates, which we use as a proxy for outgroup animosity. We examine multiple threa…
Critical junctures and party innovation
European radical left foreign policy after the invasion of Ukraine
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has prompted a closer examination of parties’ attitudes towards the Putin regime. While research has examined the connections of the EU's far-right with Russia, less attention has been given to the stances of Radical Left Parties (RLPs). We close this gap by analysing Roll Call Votes (RCVs) in the European Parliament. Our findings indicate that RLPs displayed the lowest levels of assertiveness towards Russia b…
Job insecurity and vote for radical parties
Job insecurity is a pervasive phenomenon whose effects on support for different parties have attracted increasing attention in the literature. A growing body of research has assessed the relationship between job insecurity and the success of radical parties in Western democracies, but results are still inconclusive due to the complex nature of this independent variable. This article contributes new evidence to the current debates on this topic by…
The technocratic side of populist attitudes
Populism and technocracy represent a challenge to pluralist party democracies. The first promotes the rule by ‘the people’, while the second demands the rule by independent experts. The literature on populism and technocracy as challenges to party democracy is burgeoning. Less is known about citizens’ attitudes towards the ideas that underpin both populism and technocracy. In this article these opinions are explored in a survey conducted in Spain…
Radical Left Voters in Western Europe
Radical Left Voters in Western Europe explores who votes for Radical Left Parties in contemporary Western Europe, and why. Once considered a relic of the past which was doomed to disappear in affluent societies, Radical Left Parties were able to survive unprecedented electoral crises in the 1980s and 1990s to become a stable and significant feature of contemporary West European politics. Despite this, our knowledge of the electorate of contempora…
Technocratic attitudes in Covid‐19 times
Western publics show a sizable support for experts’ involvement in political decision making, that is, technocratic attitudes. This article analyzes two key aspects of these attitudes: technocratic attitudes’ stability and the heterogeneity in the demand for experts depending on the context. We first analyze how technocratic attitudes have been affected by an external event, the COVID‐19 pandemic, that has placed experts’ role at the forefront of…
The will for reason
Populism and technocracy constitute the main challenges to party government. While significant research has been devoted to support for populism, less is known about voters’ demand for experts. In this study, a conjoint experiment in Spain to examine whether citizens prefer experts in executive positions is presented. It focuses on the most common form of expert participation in office: individuals who combine technical expertise and a party affi…
Joining the party
Many parties have updated their recruitment strategies and offer softer routes for joining their ranks. In some parties, registered sympathizers are given virtually the same rights as traditional members with substantially lower costs. This begs the question, why would somebody take the further step of joining such parties as full members rather than sympathizers? This article analyzes this question by using membership surveys from three left-win…
Artes musicales y audiovisuales
El libro es el resultado del estudio de la diplomacia cultural norteamericana en Latinoamérica y el Caribe, en tanto herramienta de persuasión estable en la dominación cultural ejercida por los Estados Unidos en nuestra América desde su constitución imperial a la actualidad. En ella se conjugan prácticas musicales y audiovisuales con la economía, la política, las relaciones internacionales y la historia
Beyond the 2008 Great Recession
One of the most striking political developments occurring during the Great Recession has been the growth of the radical left in some European countries. Though the literature is far from conclusive, it has generally been argued that the economy is not a main reason driving people’s support for non-mainstream parties (particularly the Greens and the radical right). In this article, we contend that this is not the case for radical left parties (RLP…
The limits of organizational innovation and multi-speed membership
The increasing introduction of organizational innovations has changed the notion of party membership. Some political parties now offer multiple kinds of formal affiliation, whereas others offer a varied repertoire of modes of engagement in party activities without formal membership distinctions. However, little is still known about the consequences of these changes. This article studies the case of Podemos, a party that has adopted a considerably…
Stealth democracy and the support for new and challenger parties
In the wake of the 2008 Great Recession, new and challenger parties have enjoyed electoral gains in some European countries. Political and economic disaffection have been pointed out as the main drivers of their electoral support. This article proposes voter’s stealth democracy attitudes, as defined by Hibbing and Theiss-Morse, as an additional driving force to account for this electoral change. We examine the case of Spain with a survey conducte…
Radical-Left Populism during the Great Recession
The 2008 Great Recession has altered party allegiances in many countries. This has been very visible in some of the countries hardest hit by the crisis, such as Spain. The Spanish case stands out as the only one in which a fully newly created radical-left populist party, Podemos, has attracted sizeable support. Its success is more intriguing given its capacity to attract many former supporters of the established radical left, Izquierda Unida. Thi…
Support for radical left parties in Western Europe
Radical left parties (RLP) have been significant actors in many Western European party systems since the expansion of mass democracy. In some cases, they have been very relevant forces in terms of popular support. Despite this fact, they have not received a great deal of attention in past decades from a comparative perspective. Through examination of the role of an important set of factors, this article provides, for the first time, a cross-natio…
Effects of party primaries on electoral performance
One of the most relevant aspects of party democratization is the consequence of more inclusive methods of candidate selection, and particularly of primaries, for party competition. Despite its relevance, and contrary to the attention it has received in the US, the electoral consequences of primaries have rarely been analysed in Europe. This article assesses whether the use of one member one vote (OMOV) primaries for candidate selection affects th…
Varieties of Radicalism
Radical left parties (RLPs) are diverse and several RLP subtypes have been distinguished in the literature. However, the degree to which these subtypes are linked to significantly different policy proposals has not been analysed, and little is known about whether subtypes are associated with differences in their respective voters’ characteristics. This article analyses the policy positions of RLPs across a number of issues, using manifesto and ex…
Examining the ‘demand’ side of the market for political activism
This article examines the ‘demand’ side of the market for political activism and analyses the extent to which grassroots activists of political parties and politically oriented civil society organizations (CSOs) resemble or differ. With data from several surveys of CSO and Green party activists in Spain we evaluate how much the pool of members from all these organizations are part of what can be identified as a single market of activists. After d…
Impulse and Decadence of Linkage Processes
Reacting to a profound electoral and organisational crisis, in the mid-1980s the Communist Party of Spain initiated a process of party change which envisioned empowering members in decision-making processes and establishing closer and wider relations with civil society. Party change eventually led to the creation of a new organisation, United Left. This article gives an account of the design and implementation of participatory and environmental l…
Gaining Political Capital Through Social Capital
This article analyzes the relevance of network embeddedness and social capital in allowing migrants' associations to gain political capital and access to policy making in the cities of Barcelona and Madrid. With data from a survey of migrants' associations in both locations, we examine the degree to which embeddedness in networks of links with other migrants' associations and with autochthonous Spanish civil society organizations are consequentia…
Party Change in Southern Europe
The crisis of the Spanish radical left
In his very kind and perceptive response to my article, ‘Electoral Competition, Organization and Party Change: The Communist Party of Spain (PCE) and United Left (IU), 1986–2000’, Raj S. Chari rais
Programmatic Adaptation and Organizational Centralization in the AP-PP
After decades of change, a significant number of contemporary parties share the features of an organizational model characterized by its eminently electoral orientation, its professionalization and the centralization of its decision-making processes. The Alianza Popular (AP; since 1989 the Partido Popular [PP]) represents an example of this type of party evolution, since it has experienced in the last decades several important ideological and org…
Electoral competition, organizational constraints and party change
In the past two decades West European communist parties have gone through a period of crisis and transformation. The importance of the challenges they have been facing has forced these parties to decide about matters related to the very nature of their organizations. The case of the Communist Party of Spain (Partido Comunista de España, PCE) responds to this logic of party crisis and subsequent choices made with the goal of reviving the party. Du…
Radical-Left Populism during the Great Recession
The 2008 Great Recession has altered party allegiances in many countries. This has been very visible in some of the countries hardest hit by the crisis, such as Spain. The Spanish case stands out as the only one in which a fully newly created radical-left populist party, Podemos, has attracted sizeable support. Its success is more intriguing given its capacity to attract many former supporters of the established radical left, Izquierda Unida. Thi…
Support for radical left parties in Western Europe
Radical left parties (RLP) have been significant actors in many Western European party systems since the expansion of mass democracy. In some cases, they have been very relevant forces in terms of popular support. Despite this fact, they have not received a great deal of attention in past decades from a comparative perspective. Through examination of the role of an important set of factors, this article provides, for the first time, a cross-natio…
Varieties of Radicalism
Radical left parties (RLPs) are diverse and several RLP subtypes have been distinguished in the literature. However, the degree to which these subtypes are linked to significantly different policy proposals has not been analysed, and little is known about whether subtypes are associated with differences in their respective voters’ characteristics. This article analyses the policy positions of RLPs across a number of issues, using manifesto and ex…
Technocratic attitudes in Covid‐19 times
Western publics show a sizable support for experts’ involvement in political decision making, that is, technocratic attitudes. This article analyzes two key aspects of these attitudes: technocratic attitudes’ stability and the heterogeneity in the demand for experts depending on the context. We first analyze how technocratic attitudes have been affected by an external event, the COVID‐19 pandemic, that has placed experts’ role at the forefront of…
Stealth democracy and the support for new and challenger parties
In the wake of the 2008 Great Recession, new and challenger parties have enjoyed electoral gains in some European countries. Political and economic disaffection have been pointed out as the main drivers of their electoral support. This article proposes voter’s stealth democracy attitudes, as defined by Hibbing and Theiss-Morse, as an additional driving force to account for this electoral change. We examine the case of Spain with a survey conducte…
The limits of organizational innovation and multi-speed membership
The increasing introduction of organizational innovations has changed the notion of party membership. Some political parties now offer multiple kinds of formal affiliation, whereas others offer a varied repertoire of modes of engagement in party activities without formal membership distinctions. However, little is still known about the consequences of these changes. This article studies the case of Podemos, a party that has adopted a considerably…
Effects of party primaries on electoral performance
One of the most relevant aspects of party democratization is the consequence of more inclusive methods of candidate selection, and particularly of primaries, for party competition. Despite its relevance, and contrary to the attention it has received in the US, the electoral consequences of primaries have rarely been analysed in Europe. This article assesses whether the use of one member one vote (OMOV) primaries for candidate selection affects th…
The will for reason
Populism and technocracy constitute the main challenges to party government. While significant research has been devoted to support for populism, less is known about voters’ demand for experts. In this study, a conjoint experiment in Spain to examine whether citizens prefer experts in executive positions is presented. It focuses on the most common form of expert participation in office: individuals who combine technical expertise and a party affi…
European radical left foreign policy after the invasion of Ukraine
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has prompted a closer examination of parties’ attitudes towards the Putin regime. While research has examined the connections of the EU's far-right with Russia, less attention has been given to the stances of Radical Left Parties (RLPs). We close this gap by analysing Roll Call Votes (RCVs) in the European Parliament. Our findings indicate that RLPs displayed the lowest levels of assertiveness towards Russia b…
The technocratic side of populist attitudes
Populism and technocracy represent a challenge to pluralist party democracies. The first promotes the rule by ‘the people’, while the second demands the rule by independent experts. The literature on populism and technocracy as challenges to party democracy is burgeoning. Less is known about citizens’ attitudes towards the ideas that underpin both populism and technocracy. In this article these opinions are explored in a survey conducted in Spain…
Joining the party
Many parties have updated their recruitment strategies and offer softer routes for joining their ranks. In some parties, registered sympathizers are given virtually the same rights as traditional members with substantially lower costs. This begs the question, why would somebody take the further step of joining such parties as full members rather than sympathizers? This article analyzes this question by using membership surveys from three left-win…
Beyond the 2008 Great Recession
One of the most striking political developments occurring during the Great Recession has been the growth of the radical left in some European countries. Though the literature is far from conclusive, it has generally been argued that the economy is not a main reason driving people’s support for non-mainstream parties (particularly the Greens and the radical right). In this article, we contend that this is not the case for radical left parties (RLP…
Gaining Political Capital Through Social Capital
This article analyzes the relevance of network embeddedness and social capital in allowing migrants' associations to gain political capital and access to policy making in the cities of Barcelona and Madrid. With data from a survey of migrants' associations in both locations, we examine the degree to which embeddedness in networks of links with other migrants' associations and with autochthonous Spanish civil society organizations are consequentia…
Electoral competition, organizational constraints and party change
In the past two decades West European communist parties have gone through a period of crisis and transformation. The importance of the challenges they have been facing has forced these parties to decide about matters related to the very nature of their organizations. The case of the Communist Party of Spain (Partido Comunista de España, PCE) responds to this logic of party crisis and subsequent choices made with the goal of reviving the party. Du…
Impulse and Decadence of Linkage Processes
Reacting to a profound electoral and organisational crisis, in the mid-1980s the Communist Party of Spain initiated a process of party change which envisioned empowering members in decision-making processes and establishing closer and wider relations with civil society. Party change eventually led to the creation of a new organisation, United Left. This article gives an account of the design and implementation of participatory and environmental l…
Examining the ‘demand’ side of the market for political activism
This article examines the ‘demand’ side of the market for political activism and analyses the extent to which grassroots activists of political parties and politically oriented civil society organizations (CSOs) resemble or differ. With data from several surveys of CSO and Green party activists in Spain we evaluate how much the pool of members from all these organizations are part of what can be identified as a single market of activists. After d…
Programmatic Adaptation and Organizational Centralization in the AP-PP
After decades of change, a significant number of contemporary parties share the features of an organizational model characterized by its eminently electoral orientation, its professionalization and the centralization of its decision-making processes. The Alianza Popular (AP; since 1989 the Partido Popular [PP]) represents an example of this type of party evolution, since it has experienced in the last decades several important ideological and org…
Critical junctures and party innovation
Electoral competition, organizational constraints and party change
In the past two decades West European communist parties have gone through a period of crisis and transformation. The importance of the challenges they have been facing has forced these parties to decide about matters related to the very nature of their organizations. The case of the Communist Party of Spain (Partido Comunista de España, PCE) responds to this logic of party crisis and subsequent choices made with the goal of reviving the party. Du…
The crisis of the Spanish radical left
In his very kind and perceptive response to my article, ‘Electoral Competition, Organization and Party Change: The Communist Party of Spain (PCE) and United Left (IU), 1986–2000’, Raj S. Chari rais
Programmatic Adaptation and Organizational Centralization in the AP-PP
After decades of change, a significant number of contemporary parties share the features of an organizational model characterized by its eminently electoral orientation, its professionalization and the centralization of its decision-making processes. The Alianza Popular (AP; since 1989 the Partido Popular [PP]) represents an example of this type of party evolution, since it has experienced in the last decades several important ideological and org…
Party Change in Southern Europe
Gaining Political Capital Through Social Capital
This article analyzes the relevance of network embeddedness and social capital in allowing migrants' associations to gain political capital and access to policy making in the cities of Barcelona and Madrid. With data from a survey of migrants' associations in both locations, we examine the degree to which embeddedness in networks of links with other migrants' associations and with autochthonous Spanish civil society organizations are consequentia…
Impulse and Decadence of Linkage Processes
Reacting to a profound electoral and organisational crisis, in the mid-1980s the Communist Party of Spain initiated a process of party change which envisioned empowering members in decision-making processes and establishing closer and wider relations with civil society. Party change eventually led to the creation of a new organisation, United Left. This article gives an account of the design and implementation of participatory and environmental l…
Examining the ‘demand’ side of the market for political activism
This article examines the ‘demand’ side of the market for political activism and analyses the extent to which grassroots activists of political parties and politically oriented civil society organizations (CSOs) resemble or differ. With data from several surveys of CSO and Green party activists in Spain we evaluate how much the pool of members from all these organizations are part of what can be identified as a single market of activists. After d…
Varieties of Radicalism
Radical left parties (RLPs) are diverse and several RLP subtypes have been distinguished in the literature. However, the degree to which these subtypes are linked to significantly different policy proposals has not been analysed, and little is known about whether subtypes are associated with differences in their respective voters’ characteristics. This article analyses the policy positions of RLPs across a number of issues, using manifesto and ex…
Support for radical left parties in Western Europe
Radical left parties (RLP) have been significant actors in many Western European party systems since the expansion of mass democracy. In some cases, they have been very relevant forces in terms of popular support. Despite this fact, they have not received a great deal of attention in past decades from a comparative perspective. Through examination of the role of an important set of factors, this article provides, for the first time, a cross-natio…
Effects of party primaries on electoral performance
One of the most relevant aspects of party democratization is the consequence of more inclusive methods of candidate selection, and particularly of primaries, for party competition. Despite its relevance, and contrary to the attention it has received in the US, the electoral consequences of primaries have rarely been analysed in Europe. This article assesses whether the use of one member one vote (OMOV) primaries for candidate selection affects th…
Radical-Left Populism during the Great Recession
The 2008 Great Recession has altered party allegiances in many countries. This has been very visible in some of the countries hardest hit by the crisis, such as Spain. The Spanish case stands out as the only one in which a fully newly created radical-left populist party, Podemos, has attracted sizeable support. Its success is more intriguing given its capacity to attract many former supporters of the established radical left, Izquierda Unida. Thi…
Stealth democracy and the support for new and challenger parties
In the wake of the 2008 Great Recession, new and challenger parties have enjoyed electoral gains in some European countries. Political and economic disaffection have been pointed out as the main drivers of their electoral support. This article proposes voter’s stealth democracy attitudes, as defined by Hibbing and Theiss-Morse, as an additional driving force to account for this electoral change. We examine the case of Spain with a survey conducte…
Beyond the 2008 Great Recession
One of the most striking political developments occurring during the Great Recession has been the growth of the radical left in some European countries. Though the literature is far from conclusive, it has generally been argued that the economy is not a main reason driving people’s support for non-mainstream parties (particularly the Greens and the radical right). In this article, we contend that this is not the case for radical left parties (RLP…
The limits of organizational innovation and multi-speed membership
The increasing introduction of organizational innovations has changed the notion of party membership. Some political parties now offer multiple kinds of formal affiliation, whereas others offer a varied repertoire of modes of engagement in party activities without formal membership distinctions. However, little is still known about the consequences of these changes. This article studies the case of Podemos, a party that has adopted a considerably…
The will for reason
Populism and technocracy constitute the main challenges to party government. While significant research has been devoted to support for populism, less is known about voters’ demand for experts. In this study, a conjoint experiment in Spain to examine whether citizens prefer experts in executive positions is presented. It focuses on the most common form of expert participation in office: individuals who combine technical expertise and a party affi…
Joining the party
Many parties have updated their recruitment strategies and offer softer routes for joining their ranks. In some parties, registered sympathizers are given virtually the same rights as traditional members with substantially lower costs. This begs the question, why would somebody take the further step of joining such parties as full members rather than sympathizers? This article analyzes this question by using membership surveys from three left-win…
Artes musicales y audiovisuales
El libro es el resultado del estudio de la diplomacia cultural norteamericana en Latinoamérica y el Caribe, en tanto herramienta de persuasión estable en la dominación cultural ejercida por los Estados Unidos en nuestra América desde su constitución imperial a la actualidad. En ella se conjugan prácticas musicales y audiovisuales con la economía, la política, las relaciones internacionales y la historia
Radical Left Voters in Western Europe
Radical Left Voters in Western Europe explores who votes for Radical Left Parties in contemporary Western Europe, and why. Once considered a relic of the past which was doomed to disappear in affluent societies, Radical Left Parties were able to survive unprecedented electoral crises in the 1980s and 1990s to become a stable and significant feature of contemporary West European politics. Despite this, our knowledge of the electorate of contempora…
Technocratic attitudes in Covid‐19 times
Western publics show a sizable support for experts’ involvement in political decision making, that is, technocratic attitudes. This article analyzes two key aspects of these attitudes: technocratic attitudes’ stability and the heterogeneity in the demand for experts depending on the context. We first analyze how technocratic attitudes have been affected by an external event, the COVID‐19 pandemic, that has placed experts’ role at the forefront of…
The technocratic side of populist attitudes
Populism and technocracy represent a challenge to pluralist party democracies. The first promotes the rule by ‘the people’, while the second demands the rule by independent experts. The literature on populism and technocracy as challenges to party democracy is burgeoning. Less is known about citizens’ attitudes towards the ideas that underpin both populism and technocracy. In this article these opinions are explored in a survey conducted in Spain…
European radical left foreign policy after the invasion of Ukraine
The 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine has prompted a closer examination of parties’ attitudes towards the Putin regime. While research has examined the connections of the EU's far-right with Russia, less attention has been given to the stances of Radical Left Parties (RLPs). We close this gap by analysing Roll Call Votes (RCVs) in the European Parliament. Our findings indicate that RLPs displayed the lowest levels of assertiveness towards Russia b…
Job insecurity and vote for radical parties
Job insecurity is a pervasive phenomenon whose effects on support for different parties have attracted increasing attention in the literature. A growing body of research has assessed the relationship between job insecurity and the success of radical parties in Western democracies, but results are still inconclusive due to the complex nature of this independent variable. This article contributes new evidence to the current debates on this topic by…
Critical junctures and party innovation
Threat perception and partisan animosity
This study examines antagonism between opposing political camps in Argentina and Brazil, two Latin American countries that have experienced heightened polarization and growing support for contentious right-wing populist leaders. Using original survey data, we analyze how specific perceived threats relate to social distance toward supporters of rival presidential candidates, which we use as a proxy for outgroup animosity. We examine multiple threa…
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